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title: Chemical Bonding
description: Chemical bonding explores how atoms combine to form molecules and compounds through ionic, covalent, and metallic bonds. Learners will understand molecular geometry, intermolecular forces, and how bonding influences physical and chemical properties.
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# Chemical Bonding

Chemical bonding explores how atoms combine to form molecules and compounds through ionic, covalent, and metallic bonds. Learners will understand molecular geometry, intermolecular forces, and how bonding influences physical and chemical properties.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 2 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. OpenStax Chemistry - Bonding Chapter

Chapter 8 of the free OpenStax Chemistry 2e textbook, covering valence bond theory, hybrid atomic orbitals, sigma and pi bonds in multiple bonding, and molecular orbital theory, explaining properties such as oxygen's paramagnetism that Lewis structures and VSEPR cannot predict.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://openstax.org/books/chemistry-2e/pages/8-introduction

**Tags:** chemical-bonding, valence-bond-theory, hybrid-orbitals, molecular-orbital-theory, general-chemistry

### 2. Chem LibreTexts - Acids and Bases

Open general chemistry textbook chapters covering acid-base definitions, ionization constants, pH calculations, polyprotic acids, buffers and hydrolysis, with worked examples and exercises. Suited to working through the theory at your own pace alongside a course.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry

**Tags:** acid-base, open-textbook, ph, buffers, general-chemistry

### 3. molview.org

MolView is a free online molecular viewer and editor that lets you draw chemical structures in 2D and visualize them in 3D. It also provides access to molecule data and crystal structures from online databases, with quick tools for exploring structure, bonding, and properties.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://molview.org

**Tags:** websites, science-research, chemistry

## Courses

### 1. Chemistry

Master chemical bonding with this free Khan Academy course. Explore ionic, covalent, and metallic bonds to build a strong chemistry foundation.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/chemical-bonds

**Tags:** chemical-bonding, ionic-bonds, covalent-bonds, metallic-bonds, general-chemistry

### 2. Principles of Chemical Science (MIT 5.111SC)

**Author:** Catherine Drennan

Atomic and molecular electronic structure, periodic trends, bonding and molecular shape, thermodynamics, acid-base and redox equilibria, chemical kinetics and catalysis, assuming only high school chemistry. Includes 46 lecture videos, lecture notes, and problem sets and exams with solutions.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/5-111sc-principles-of-chemical-science-fall-2014/

**Tags:** general-chemistry, atomic-structure, chemical-bonding, thermodynamics, chemical-kinetics

## Books

### 1. Chemical Bonding

**Author:** Roger L. DeKock, Harry B. Gray

The 1980 edition of DeKock and Gray's Chemical Structure and Bonding, moving from atomic structure through valence bond, hybrid orbital and molecular orbital descriptions of diatomic and polyatomic molecules to transition-metal complexes and bonding in solids, with problems and answers.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805323104?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, science-research, chemistry

### 2. The Nature of the Chemical Bond

**Author:** Linus Pauling

Third edition (1960) of Linus Pauling's landmark monograph on structural chemistry, presenting resonance, hybrid orbitals, electronegativity, covalent and ionic radii, and hydrogen bonding, and showing how valence-bond ideas explain the structures of molecules, complexes, metals and crystals.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801403332?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, science-research, chemistry

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